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Re:Northflank Breached on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:42PM (#50307450)
Official statement: https://www.sentry.help/en/articles/17824780-was-sentry-cust...

Seems it's not used in production and doesn't contain customer data.

Re:We Won't "Just Hang Out" on Thursday October 29, 2026 @01:49PM (#50293146)
Hunger games vs. MeowMeowBeenz
Re:Gravity Seems Holographic. What Does That Mean for Reality? on Friday September 25, 2026 @01:32PM (#49847556)
Consciousness is the greatest illusion of them all.
Re:Let's make quality the norm again on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @01:59PM (#49730654)
Luxury is another dimension than price <-> quality.
Re:Amazon Stonehenge: Parque Arqueológico Do SolstíCIO on Thursday September 03, 2026 @02:06PM (#49554122)
> Amazon Stonehenge: Diskless, Kafka Compatible Data Streaming on top of Amazon Glacier.
Re:License plate reader searches should require a warrant on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @02:48PM (#49276889)
No, but accessing and searching the database is.
Re:The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed on Monday July 13, 2026 @12:00PM (#48894686)
If you read the article, he admits he used AI for this.
No, unfortunately P2P's glory days are behind us. Shame, because it was a really cool technology.
Re:We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @02:50PM (#48737489)
Nobody has time anymore to read a textbook.
Re:We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @02:49PM (#48737472)
(in recent memory). Surely the industrial revolution was a much larger disruption.
Re:We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @02:45PM (#48737425)
Yes, they taught that too.
Re:Where every major LLM stands politically on Thursday June 25, 2026 @03:36PM (#48678203)
It's interesting how distrust for big pharma used to be left wing, but is now right wing. How did that happen?
Re:IBM Debuts First Sub-1 Nanometer Chip Technology on Thursday June 25, 2026 @03:26PM (#48678079)
usgov
It probably had a snake in it's belly, and they thought it was it's neck
Re:Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @03:42PM (#48284951)
It went beyond duping, you could construct your own completely unique weapon stats with gameshark codes at the bank.

Prototypal item crafting

Assuming you're serious? Store passwords with salted one-way hashes.
Before SYSCALL there was INT
I had a similar experience but with MSSQL, was invited to join some meetings with MS Sales folks. I quickly learned the project was never meant to succeed, but was simply leverage to negotiate a better contract.
A tool so good, the workers need to be forced to use it.
Re:How Monero's proof of work works on Monday May 04, 2026 @03:42PM (#48013922)
Once you buy gold, you don't have to rely on other people continuing to burn resources indefinitely. You pay upfront for the cost of mining, and that's it.
They'll resent you insofar as it was confrontational vs. collaborative. If you can incept your conclusion into others they will not resent you. It's the whole raison d'etre of the Socratic method.

I had someone tell me, earnestly, that they hated me because it turned out that I was alright right. Not in the stubborn sense either.

>Reporting Mechanism: In countries with Intergovernmental Agreements (IGAs), such as Canada, financial institutions report to local tax authorities, which then share the information with the IRS.
Re:Codex for almost everything on Thursday April 16, 2026 @04:45PM (#47799278)
Probably accessibility APIs
Allbirds ran on Shopify... was the CTO a shoe engineer?
At least tokens are equivalent to measuring 'thinking'... I wouldn't mind if it burned 100k tokens to output a one line change to fix a bug.

The problem is maximizing code generated per token spent. This model of "efficiency" is fundamentally broken.

Why worry?
Re:I Quit. The Clankers Won on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @12:34PM (#47603149)
"I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me, and it'll happen to you, too." - Abe Simpson
Use the atmosphere itself as propellant gas.
Re:Google *Unkills* JPEG XL? on Monday December 01, 2025 @12:37PM (#46110323)
Tiled at different zoom levels
Worked at a place that used to do a kind of arbitrage between adclicks and traditional print. A large percent of traffic, especially mobile, was obviously either toddlers or bad bots; yet we were billing our customers for the 'engagement'.

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